Morbid yet funny, outlandish yet profound, Imperium is the satirical South Seas horror story you never knew you needed.
Fish can be beautiful (tropical species), ugly (deep-sea horrors) or scary (sharks), but it's hard to relate to them.
But he spins a good story, whether describing the savage sea, the horrors of primitive surgery or a "holiday camp cacophony" of seals.
"I have traversed a treacherous sea of horrors to be with you here tonight," he told the small audience, which had bought tickets ranging from $150 on up.
There is much in "Deep Water" that would have lured Antonioni: a secluded soul, a hostile sea, and a horror of what lies on land.
Her energies have gone into staging the visuals that tell the stories of two song-suites, The Ninth Wave (about a woman lost at sea, and the horror of being parted from loved ones), from the 1985 album The Hounds of Love, and A Sky of Honey, the second half of 2005's Aerial (about the play of light in midsummer).
Watch the video to Prom Queen The Horrors – Sea Within a Sea The first track from the Southend goth-rockers' second album has been posted on their website and it's a corker.
I scampered upstairs to find the dancers, who were fittingly dressed as Sea Monkeys standing with horror on their faces.
The prime minister stalks the countryside, leaping out of woodland caves or rising from the sea like an eldritch horror to blind us all with his sculpted pecs.
He then reappears at the end in more normal attire, strumming the well-known introduction to "My Sweet Lord" on an acoustic guitar, and backed by the house band; instead of continuing with the song, Harrison finally takes his chance to play "Pirate Bob" by abruptly segueing into a sea shanty – to the horror of the "greasy" compère, played by Idle.
